Multi Skilled Plant Operative – Mobile Plant - Wellingborough
Join a Team at Delivers Excellence Every Day!
We’re looking for a reliable, hands-on person to join our busy site in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. If you enjoy practical work, being part of a team, and want to work for a company that values its people, this could be the job for you.
We’re a family-owned business with over 75 years in construction and recycling. With 25+ locations and nearly 700 people, we offer stability and real opportunities to grow. Our Wellingborough facility recycles Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) and turns it into Ecoblend®, a sustainable aggregate used in construction, helping reduce landfill and protect natural resources. We’re known for our personal approach, dependability, and innovative solutions.
As a Multi-Skilled Plant Operative – Mobile, you’ll play a key role in keeping the site running smoothly. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work as part of a team in a busy environment.
What You’ll Do:
Operating Wheeled Loading Shovel (MPQC, CPCS, CSCS or equivalent is essential.)
Loading trucks, moving, and repositioning aggregate materials and other products in the bays and around the depot.
Carrying out general yard duties, including maintenance and cleaning of the yard.
In addition, you will work alongside the other operatives to clean and maintain the recycling plant. This will include the use of hand and power tools to clean conveyors, feeders, screens, crusher etc and removing build-up in chutes etc.
Always keep the site safe and tidy.
Follow health, safety, and environmental rules.
Ideally you will bring experience from a quarry, recycling, or mineral processing environment.
Hours: 0700-1700, one hour unpaid break. Monday-Friday. Overtime available most days.
About You:
You must have the appropriate ticket to operate Machinery over 10 tonnes
Physically fit and happy to work in an active role
A positive, “can-do” attitude
Reliable and able to work well with others
Benefits, after a successful probationary period, will include: an employer pension contribution of 9%; a ‘Death in Service’ benefit; 25 days paid annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays.
You may also be entitled to discretionary annual summer and Christmas bonuses. The Company also offers an Employee Assistance Program, a ‘Bike to work’ scheme and special membership rates at 100’s of gyms.
We actively support learning, progression and development programmes.
All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.
Day Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Experience:
- Site operation: 1 year (preferred)
- Forklift: 1 year (preferred)
- Loading Shovel Operation: 1 year (required)
- Telescopic Handler: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Telehandler Licence (preferred)
- Forklift Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person
